Business travel

Since 2 July, a code-share agreement with Middle East Airlines has enabled Air France to take business travellers to Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Accor group confirms its ambitions on the Russian market, with the inauguration of a new hotel - on the 18^th in Russia, and on 5^th in the capital - in Moscow's business centre: the Novotel Moscow City.

Hilton has reached a major milestone with the inauguration of its 4000^th hotel, the Hilton Shijiazhuang, in Heibei province, China.

Iberia is launching a new service enabling passengers to check in their own hold baggage by printing out an identification tag in just a few clicks from their office or home. Fast, free and efficient.

Aigle Azur is continuing to extend its online check-in service, adding the Paris-Moscow route to the routes covered by the service.

If we follow the conclusions of the Skytrax consultancy, whose annual rankings have become the benchmark for evaluating airline and airport services, there are very few airports in the United States to make it into the top 50 of the world's best air hubs.

Delta Air Lines moved into the new Terminal 4 at New York's JFK airport last May.

HRG has published a study of business travel transactions for its UK-based customers. The business travel agency (TMC) draws some optimistic conclusions, while highlighting the wide disparities between certain destinations, and the marked downturn in business class.

Six months ago, Hadrien Musitelli and Ahmed Kadhim founded MK Partnair, a company specialising in the chartering of private jets and airliners. Their aim: to democratise what he describes as the "taxi plane", by promoting the various advantages of business aviation in terms of time saving and efficiency.

The competition for the graces of the high-contribution passenger is not only in the air, but increasingly on the ground, in the lounges and VIP areas.

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Despite the economic slowdown in Europe, airlines are not giving up. On the contrary, they are continuing to improve their business class products and develop their premium economy classes to win back business travellers.

The Marriott Opera Ambassador hotel replaces the former Radisson of the same name in the heart of the 9th arrondissement.^th Paris district. The American group's new business address has a total of 298 rooms, and is preparing to give its lobby a facelift.

Air Canada is launching its new premium class on 12 July. The new cabin, known as Privilege Economy, offers enhanced in-flight comfort, as well as a range of services for business travellers, such as priority boarding.

With an extremely healthy rate of growth and a resolutely contemporary move upmarket, urban residences are making their own music. In France and elsewhere.

The SNCF recently extended its door-to-door service to Gare de l'Est and Strasbourg. Reservations for taxis or chauffeur-driven vehicles will soon be available at the Gare de Lyon in Paris and at Lyon Part-Dieu.

The IHG group is inaugurating a Holiday Inn hotel at Guayaquil airport. This is the brand's second hotel in the country.

The Fairmont Baku hotel is taking up residence in the Flame Towers, to cater for the growing flow of business travellers to Azerbaijan.

Premium residential hotel brand Ascott will make its Indian debut in 2016 with the opening of Ascott Ireo City Gurgaon, in a prime business destination just a few kilometres from New Delhi.

Aéroports de Paris has just renovated the international hall dedicated to international passengers and other travellers from French overseas departments and territories in the South terminal at Paris-Orly airport, which now covers some 9,000 m².